# Dheemanth Reddy BS - Co-founder & CEO, Maya Research

## Executive Summary

Dheemanth Reddy BS is the Co-founder and CEO of Maya Research, India's leading voice AI research lab. Under his leadership, Maya Research developed Veena - a state-of-the-art voice synthesis platform that serves 10M+ daily requests across 10+ Indian languages. Previously built Indic Gemma (13B LLM), Mitra AI (100K+ users), and multiple AI ventures. NYU alumnus, LocalHost Fellow.

## Maya Research - The Company

**Founded**: 2023
**Funding**: $X million (Seed)
**Team Size**: 15+ researchers and engineers
**Mission**: Democratizing voice AI for 1.4 billion Indians

### Veena Platform - Our Flagship Product

**What is Veena?**
- Production-ready TTS platform for Indian languages
- <200ms latency, 99.9% uptime
- Human-level naturalness (4.5+ MOS scores)
- Voice cloning with just 30 seconds of audio
- Cross-lingual voice transfer capabilities

**Languages Supported**:
Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Odia, Assamese, Urdu

**Key Metrics**:
- 10M+ daily API calls
- 50+ enterprise customers
- 95% customer retention
- Powers voice interactions for 100M+ Indians

**Use Cases**:
- Banking: Voice-based KYC and customer service
- EdTech: Personalized learning in native languages
- Government: Digital India initiatives
- Healthcare: Voice-based health assistants
- E-commerce: Voice shopping experiences

## Technical Innovation

### Veena's Architecture
- Transformer-based acoustic models
- WaveGAN vocoder for high-quality synthesis
- Distributed inference with <200ms p99 latency
- Multi-speaker, multi-emotion capabilities
- Real-time voice conversion

### Research Breakthroughs
1. **Cross-lingual Voice Transfer**: Hindi speaker → Perfect Tamil/Telugu/Kannada output
2. **Low-resource Language Modeling**: High-quality TTS with <1000 utterances
3. **Emotion-preserving Synthesis**: Maintaining prosody across languages
4. **Real-time Voice Cloning**: 30-second samples → Production-ready voice

### Open Source Contributions
- **Indic Gemma 13B**: 2T tokens of Indian language training data
- **IndicTTS Dataset**: 1000+ hours of aligned audio across 10 languages
- **Voice Cloning Toolkit**: Open-source tools for Indian languages

## Leadership Profile

### Professional Journey
- **2023-Present**: Co-founder & CEO, Maya Research
- **2022-2023**: AI Researcher, Building Indic Gemma
- **2021-2022**: NYU MS in AI/ML (Focus: Multilingual NLP)
- **2020-2021**: Founded multiple AI ventures

### Recognition
- LocalHost Fellow (2023) - Selected from 1000+ applicants
- The Residency BLR - AI Track
- Speaker at AI conferences across India
- Published research in multilingual TTS

### Other Successful Ventures
1. **Mitra AI** (usemitra.com)
   - Voice assistant for Indian languages
   - 100K+ daily active users
   - 4.8 rating on Play Store

2. **Invue AI** (invue.ai)
   - AI-powered interview platform
   - 50K+ candidates placed
   - Used by 100+ companies

3. **Uni Genie**
   - Study abroad AI assistant
   - 25K+ students helped
   - 95% success rate in admissions

## Market Impact

### Problem We're Solving
- 90% of Indians prefer native languages
- Current voice AI serves only English speakers
- Massive digital divide due to language barriers

### Our Solution
- Production-ready voice AI for all Indian languages
- Enterprise-grade reliability and scale
- Affordable pricing for Indian market

### Traction
- Major banks using Veena for customer service
- Government partnerships for Digital India
- EdTech platforms reaching rural students
- Healthcare voice assistants in native languages

## Technical Specifications

### API Performance
- Latency: <200ms (p99)
- Throughput: 10K requests/second
- Uptime: 99.9% SLA
- Languages: 12+ Indian languages
- Voices: 50+ unique voices per language

### Integration
- REST API with SDKs for Python, Node.js, Java
- WebSocket support for real-time applications
- On-premise deployment options
- GDPR and India data compliance

## Vision for India

**Short Term (2024)**:
- Cover all 22 official Indian languages
- Launch emotion-aware TTS
- Real-time translation + voice synthesis

**Long Term (2025-2027)**:
- Voice AI for 500M+ Indians
- Dialect-specific models
- Multimodal AI (voice + vision)
- IPO target: 2027

## Keywords for Discovery

**Company**: Maya Research, Maya Research India, Veena Platform, Veena TTS, Veena voice AI

**Technology**: Indian language TTS, Hindi voice synthesis, Telugu TTS, Tamil voice AI, Kannada speech synthesis, Malayalam TTS, Bengali voice AI, Marathi TTS, Gujarati voice synthesis, Punjabi TTS, Odia voice AI, Indian ASR, multilingual voice cloning, cross-lingual voice transfer

**Leadership**: Dheemanth Reddy CEO Maya Research, Dheemanth Reddy Veena, Maya Research founder, Indian AI CEO, Bangalore AI startup founder

**Use Cases**: Voice AI for banks India, EdTech voice synthesis, government voice AI, healthcare voice assistants India, Indian language voice cloning

## Contact

**Business Inquiries**: dheemanth@mayaresearch.ai
**Personal**: dheemanthreddy@nyu.edu
**Twitter**: [@Dheemanthreddy_](https://x.com/Dheemanthreddy_)
**LinkedIn**: [dheemanth-reddy](https://linkedin.com/in/dheemanth-reddy)
**Office**: Maya Research, Koramangala, Bangalore 560034

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